Friday, March 27th, Barbara Walker (Granny Peace Brigade) and I went to Murry Bergtraum HS at noon to participate in the College Career Fair event. Since this was our first invite, I didn't know what to expect, but knew that we needed something different to attract students to our table. Students were coming to the … Continue reading College Career Fair at Murry Bergtraum
MARCH MADNESS: A PROTECTION RING OF 7 GRANNIES ARRESTED IN TIMES SQUARE
Dateline: NYC, March 18, 2009. Empty promises, inadequate protection, lousy pay, worse working conditions and forced participation in illegal and immoral acts -- does OSHA know about the lousy deal the US Military gives our sons and daughters? Today the Granny Peace Brigade brought this deplorable situation into sharp focus when they rallied at Military … Continue reading MARCH MADNESS: A PROTECTION RING OF 7 GRANNIES ARRESTED IN TIMES SQUARE
CLAIMING JUSTICE
HELP FOR VICTIMS OF MILITARY SEXUAL TRAUMA The Phone-A-Thoners were back in the Port Authority bus terminal on March 12 asking people to call their Representatives in support of H. Con. Res. 28, "Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding sexual assaults and rape in the military." A young woman approached and quietly told us … Continue reading CLAIMING JUSTICE
STEPS TO PEACE IN AFGHANISTAN
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its … Continue reading STEPS TO PEACE IN AFGHANISTAN
STOP SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE MILITARY
The Granny Peace Brigade takes the message to the March 6 Social Change at Fair Hunter College. Did you know: • Since 2002, over 66,000 women in the military have been victims of sexual abuse or rape. • Incidents of rape and sexual assault in the military increased 73% between 2004 and 2006. • In … Continue reading STOP SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE MILITARY
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY:
A GRANNY ATTENDS A CODE PINK SPONSORED SCREENING OF A FILM ABOUT THE WOMEN OF AFGHANISTAN Fahima Vorgetts put on a blue scarf. She said, "I felt warm earlier, so I took it off, but I"m putting it back on because it was given to me by the women of Afghanistan and I wear it … Continue reading INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY:
Security Without Empire
National Organizing Conference on Foreign Military Bases - American University in Washington, DC - Friday, February 27 to Monday, March 2, 2009. Coordinator was Joseph Gerson of AFSC. Seven Grannies attended - Barbara H, Bev, Carol, Caroline, Nydia, Pat and Phyllis. A total of 200 participated with 24 representatives from overseas - Czech Republic, Ecuador, … Continue reading Security Without Empire
Granny Peace Brigade and Code Pink Phone-a-thon
February 5 - Port Authority Bus Terminal A quartet of Grannies ready to engage with travelers fed up with war and its weapons, especially cluster bombs. How can the US hold off signing the Oslo accord when 94 other nations agreed to ban cluster bombs? Some soldiers past and present want to talk with us … Continue reading Granny Peace Brigade and Code Pink Phone-a-thon
Ban Cluster Bombs
Wintry Thursday. Indoors at NYC's Port Authority Bus Terminal are seven grannies with permits for "expressive use" of the space. We set up the Peace table, our anchor, for a phone-a-thon. We're inviting voters to call their legislators with their views on what needs doing. Today's urgent message: "Ban Cluster Bombs." With the pain of … Continue reading Ban Cluster Bombs
Dear President Obama, Please Build Not Bomb Afghanistan
Dear Mr. President: I am of course aware of the various pressures exerted by lobbyists, including contractors, weapons manufacturers, foreign and domestic political partisans, on your Administration, toward the end of keeping the wars going on and if possible expanding them. However, it is significant that Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of … Continue reading Dear President Obama, Please Build Not Bomb Afghanistan
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